Elearning Showcase

Last friday we presented at the E-learning Showcase. Rea and Myself got up and shared our ideas about how we can improve the training department at the Chamber of Comemrce by implementing some of the e & m Learning resources we have discovered so far on our LearnScope journey.
We spoke about our experiences with devices such as wikis, blogs, RFID tags, eportfilios, protopaages etc. We dazzaled everyone with the amount of ideas we had for implementing this in our training environment and how they will benifit not only the Chamber but our students too.
We are very excited as management staff from the Chamber heard about our wonderful ideas and are keen at trailling a few resources to reach our long distance learners.
We will be trailling a learning table in the weeks to come and getting together a complete online resources for our students.

me-portfolio!!!

Hi All,

The Chamber wanted to create a e-portfolio, which known as a electronic portfolio or digital portfolio it is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web.

i decided to experiment first with a Portfolio on myself, i have set it up as a resume' and have added pdf files, pictures and even created a slide show on there. i signed up for the free site e-port (below is a link to my page):

https://www.myeport.com/published/c/ha/chamber/home/1/

the username: chamber
password: commerce


This is a very simplistic verson of a E-portfolio, i would like to eventually apply this knowledge to creat a portfolio for students RPL for TAA. This E-portfolio demonstrates the user's abilities and is a platform for self-expression. And a advantage is if they are online, they can be maintained dynamically over time.

Podcast - customer service

Today Rea and myself did a podcast on customer service, we presented it in the form of a radio conversation. We used our radio identities Esme' and Rockie!!!

We will be putting it on a ipod, and Collette will be trailling it with her Vet in Schools students on Wednesday. We think it will be a useful tool in delivery units especially to the 'y generation'.

I am keen to hear what they think, as this will make learning more flexible.

Comic Story Boards

We've been corresponding with Marcus Ragus in Tasmania over the last couple of days and he's been assisting us creating story boards. He referred us to a cool site called wittycomics.com and we've created a few story boards on customer service. Below are some links. We want to put these on to RFID tags and trial them on our VET in Schools students.

http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/30472
http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/30470
http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/30469

M-learning with Marcus Ragus

The LearnScope team of the Chamber of Commerce NT has sourced an alliance with one of the most renowned m-learning guru's of Australia - Marcus Ragus from TAFE Tasmania.

Over the last month we have been e-corresponding with Marcus to implement an innovative idea using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) tags in the training environment.

The team have begun to confirm ideas with Marcus and Daniel (IT Technician) using live Elluminate sessions and will now be building a story board together using moodle (EdNA). Once our resources are built Daniel will be forwarding a Smart-Table for us to trail with our VET in schools students.

This could be an e-learning breakthrough for the Darwin community. How exciting!!

Audacity

This is our Audacity test:

http://chelsea_espie.podOmatic.com/entry/2007-08-16T17_51_17-07_00

The preparation for our podcasting. Now we're going to look at putting this onto an iPod.

Blogs, Wikis, Flickr & Protopage

Today we are at the Australian Technical College for another workshop! I have created, for the first time, my own wikispace, flickr account, del.icio.us and a protopage!!!!!!

Our workshop is being facilitated by Robyn Jay from TAFE NSW in Sydney.

We have discussed among ourselves how we could use some of these resources in our work at the Chamber. Our main idea was to create a common protopage for our current TAA students and this page could include:

+ A calendar with all important upcoming dates
+ Bokmarks for links to websites such as EdNA, NTIS and the Chamber NT website
+ A direct link to the current Chamber TAA timetable
+ Podcasts from a variety of workshops

Tomorrow morning we will be learning about podcasting - something that we've been waiting to learn since the beginning of our project.

To view my flickr page, use the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reabundock